Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, bestseller, Dallas, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Eric Metaxas, Facebook, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Witt, New York Times, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, Wall Street Journal}

Dallas Conference on Science and Faith Is a Hit, as Meyer, Metaxas, Tour Welcome Surprise Guest

_{Science and Culture
January 21, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Origin of Life

3}

More than a thousand people filled Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas this past weekend. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", budding yeast, evolution, genome, John Mattick, junk DNA, MIT, molecular biology, mRNAs, Nature (journal), RNA, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Scientific American, splicing}

“Junk DNA” Suffers a Blow as Nature Papers Find “Global Function” for Introns in Budding Yeast

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 21, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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All of this calls to mind a comment from biologist John Mattick, a critic of the junk DNA paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Big Bang, criminals, Dave Rubin, evolution, humans, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, justice, materialism, Michael Egnor, natural selection, punishment, robots, scientists, Stephen Hawking, Why Evolution Is True}

From Materialists, More Reductio ad Absurdum

_{Granville Sewell
January 20, 2019

Evolution

3}

Quite honestly, I think we should be grateful to people like Coyne and Hawking, who carry materialism to its logical conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, abstraction, Amsterdam, documentary, eugenics, First Baptist Church, Germany, Human Zoos, John West, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, Nazis, New York City, Ota Benga, scientific racism, Texas}

What Anne Frank and Ota Benga Have in Common

_{David Klinghoffer
January 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Cruelty and injustice can seem an abstraction, committed against faceless people. Read More ›

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Date
January 19, 2019

Categories
History of Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Bill Nye, C.S. Lewis, earth, ID the Future, ISI Books, Judeo-Christian tradition, Michael Keas, Old Testament, podcast, Psalms, rigged game, theists, theology, Unbelievable, universe}

Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion

_{Science and Culture
January 19, 2019

History of Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

2}

Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 18, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Dallas, Darwinian theory, discrimination, gravitation, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, materialism, Nagasaki, progress, Racism, science, scientific racism, scientism, Strength to Love}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 18, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

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Dr. King was sharply critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke forcefully against the idea that humans are the products of a blind material process. Read More ›

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Date
January 18, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, A Meaningful World, Atacama Desert, beauty, Benjamin Wiker, Burgess Shale, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Chile, China, Crustacea, Darwin's Doubt, DNA, euarthropod, evolution, Ferris Jabr, insects, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, MIT, Ohio State University, Periodic Table, sexual selection, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, water, wildflowers}

Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News

_{Science and Culture
January 18, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alan Guth, Albert Einstein, Alexander Vilenkin, atheism, Big Bang, Doppler shift, Fred Hoyle, galaxies, General Theory of Relativity, Hubble’s Law, Mount Wilson Observatory, Primeval Atom, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, theism, universe, Vesto Slipher}

Proper Credit — Who Discovered Hubble’s Law?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 17, 2019

Astronomy, Cosmology, Physical Sciences

3}

Many leading scientists of the day realized the implication of the cosmic expansion — there was a beginning! Read More ›

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Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, BIO-Complexity, Brownian motion, carvings, complex specified information, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, George D. Montañez, Giant’s Causeway, Robert J. Marks II, specification, specified complexity, surprise, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory

_{Science and Culture
January 17, 2019

Intelligent Design

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The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, choice, crime, evil, free will, genes, good, human dignity, Jerry Coyne, justice, morality, neurotransmitters, punishment, totalitarianism}

Jerry Coyne and the Consequences of Denying Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
January 17, 2019

Bioethics

4}

Without free will, there is no guilt and there is no innocence. There are merely animals to be managed. Read More ›